Aitkin Independent Age Obituaries, 1912-Current

1912-current obituaries from the Aitkin Independent Age, in Aitkin, Aitkin County Minnesota.

Aamond, Hans Obituary

DIED FROM BULLET WOUND
St. Paul Police Sergeant Victim of Desperate Character.
Hans Aamond, St Paul Police sergeant, is dead from a gunshot wound inflicted by an unidentified man he arrested a short time previously. Motorcycle Patrolman Wealander is in a critical condition from bullet wounds inflicted by the same man.

The murderer is at large and the police have no idea as to where he sent after his unexpected attack on Welander. According to Chief J. J. O’Connor there is no doubt the same man fired the shots at both policemen.

Sergeant Aamond was forty-seven years old and had served twenty-four years on the St. Paul police force. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), October 3, 1914, P.3.]

Adams, Georgiana Obituary

Playing with an ember taken from the kitchen stove while her mother went to a neighbor's kitchen to get a pail of water, Georgiana Adams, two years old, was burned to death at the home of her parents in St. Paul. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), March 17, 1917, P.3.]

Anderson, Knute Obituary

Knute Anderson, son of Mrs. Herman Anderson of this village, died Jan. 2, in a Minneapolis hospital with peritonitis after a month's illness, leaving here a short time ago for the city hospital treatment. He was 27 years old, a former service man, and sergeant in Company B. 135 Inf. M. N. G. The remains were brought here and a military funeral held Thursday afternoon in the Swedish Lutheran church, being conducted by Rev. E. J. Peterson. The American Legion Post and the National Guard attended in a body. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), Jan. 7, 1922, P.8.]

Broderick, J. F. Obituary

J. F. Broderick, former president of the Commercial club and for many years prominent in business affairs in St. Paul, is dead, aged sixty-nine. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), February 17, 1917, P.3.]

Burke, John E. Obituary

John E. Burke, forty-nine years old, manager of the St. Paul branch of the National Candy company, is dead. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), June 2, 1917, P.3.]

Coats, Simpson Obituary

DEATH OF SIMPSON COATS
Simpson Coats, aged 56 years and 10 months, died of heart disease at his home at Malmo, Minn., July 30, 1912. Mr. Coats leaves a wife and daughter to mourn his loss. Mr. and Mrs. Coats came to live near Nichols, fifteen years ago, but in a few years settled on a farm near Malmo. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Butler were summoned and attended the funeral on August 1st. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), Aug. 10, 1912, P.1.]

Dart, Lewis Obituary

A Lewis Dart, one of the oldest office men at South St. Paul and for twenty years a familiar figure about the exchange offices, in dead. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), February 17, 1917, P.3.]

Douglas, Edward L. Obituary

EDWARD L. DOUGLAS DIES SUDDENLY IN BRAINERD HOSPITAL
Funeral Here This Moring Under Masonic Honors.

Funeral services for E. L. Douglas of Tamarack, who died Monday, March 27, in a Brainerd hospital, will be held here this morning at 11 o'clock in the Congregational church conducted by Rev. L. . Marsh, Rev. Mr. Blair and Mystic lodge A.F. & A.M., which will conduct the service at the grave. The honorary pall bearers will be S. H. Hodgeden, Norman Falconer, J. J. McDonald, T. R. Foley, Dr. C. Garves and Wallace Barker. The active bearers will be C. W. MacDonald, Tamarack; H. C. Beecher, A. J. Elmquist, V. E. Erickson, A. W. Jacob and B. R. Hassman. Burial will be made in the family lot in Lakeview cemetery.

Edward L. Douglas was born in Canada Feb. 3, 1850, and came to the United States when a boy. In 1878 he married Miss Ellen Sook, who with son, Arthur Douglas of St. Marys, Idaho, survives him. A daughter died in infancy.

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas came to Aitkin shortly after their marriage and he engaged in the logging business and afterward moved to Minneapolis where they spent a few years before returning to Aitkin county and locating at Tamarack where Mr. Douglas had an extensive logging and Mercantile businss and was also postmaster of the village. When his health began to fail he disposed of his business interests and he and Mrs. Douglas spent some time traveling, but returned to Tamarack where they had made their home for more than twenty years.

Mr. Douglas was a highly esteemed resident of this county and was always active in promoting the best interests of the community in which he lived. He will be greatly missed by the old friends who have known him for years, but his passing out comes as an overwhelming grief to the wife he has left behind. Their son, Arthur Douglas, came to attend the funeral. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), Apr. 1, 1922, P.1.

GIERTZ, Henry Obituary

FLAGMAN KILLED AS HE WARNS OTHERS.
St. Paul, July 2-Crying a warning to his fellow workers on a steel gang at the approach of a fast freight Henry Giertz, sixty years old, a flagman, was struck by the Burlington passenger motor and hurried to his death near the Oakland tower. The freight was going toward St. Paul on the St. Paul Road and its noise covered the approach of the motor coming from the city around a sharp curve. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), July 5, 1913, P.7.]

GROUT, Mrs. Ambrose Obituary

St. Paul Woman Loses Life.
Center City.-Mrs. Ambrose Grout, oldest daughter of Mrs. Adelaide Messenger, 26 West Tenth street, St. Paul, was drowned in Chisago lake here. The mother and daughter were spending the week-end at their cottage and had gone out on the lake in a rowboat. Mrs. Grout began to pull up the anchor preparatory to returning to shore, when she stepped on her dress and the boat tipped, filling with water. The women began to bail, but the boat overturned and sank in seven feet of water. [The Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), September 21, 1912, P.7.]

Hall, Fred Obituary

DEATH OF FRED HALL
After three years illness from tuberculosis, Fred Hall passed away Sunday afternoon at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Hall. The young man was 33 years of age and came to Aitkin when a child. In 1902 he was married Miss Elizabeth Specht, who died in 1911, and he is survived by one son, a child of this marriage, and his parents and one brother, Cecil Hall, Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the First Congregational church, Rev. W. E. Hammond officiating, Miss Jessie Kempton, Mrs. F. P. McQuillin, Frank Hense and Geo. Blaising sang, with Mrs. A. L. Hamilton at the organ. There were many beautiful flowers and the funeral was largely attended. The pall bearers wee Felix Tully, R. E. Dawley, Moody Scars, Harry Beecher, Ernest Tucker and Jas Seavy. [The Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), January 23, 1915, P.1.]

Hall, Fred W. Obituary

F. W. HALL PASSED TO GREAT BEYOND
Was for 27 Years an Aitkin Attorney-Death Came Sunday Night

That Judge F. W. Hall had passed away during Sunday night was generally known in the village Monday forenoon and there were many expressions of regret on the part of business men with whom he has been associated in the daily routine of affairs for more than a quarter of a century. He had been confined to his home for about three months and for nearly two years had practically withdrawn from active conduct of his law practice.

Fred Willard Hall was born at Swift's Mills, Erie county, New York in April, 1856. He went to Little Falls, Minnesota, in 1869, when 13 years of age, and there he grew to manhood and mastered the carpenter trade. He married in 1879 and it was not until after he married that he began the study of law, accomplishing with his wife's assistance the necessary study and being admitted to the bar of Minnesota. In 1888 the late E. B. Lowell went to Little Falls to secure an attorney to come to Aitkin and try a case against an Indian, F. W. Hall was the attorney whom he employed. He came to Aitkin, won the case, and decided to locate here. During his first year he was elected probate judge, and later he was elected county attorney, a position which he held for two terms. For many years Mr. Hall was generally conceded as by far the best attorney in this county and he won and held for a long term of years the largest practice in Aitkin county. His education in the law he secured by sheer pluck and aggressiveness, and even when a serious nervous trouble began to undermine his health, he kept up through an indomitable will and continued to go to his office and at least attempt to go to his office and carry on the routine of his business until only a few months before the end came.

Besides his wife, he leaves one son, Cecil Hall, and a grandson, John Hall. Three other children have passed away, Fred Hall, Edward Hall and Nellie Hall.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday afternoon in the First congregational church, Rev. W. E. Hammond officiating, and were largely attended. Miss Rugh Wameus, at the request of the family, sang "Nearer, My God, to Thee," "Rock of Ages," and Jesus, Lover of My Soul," Mrs. A. L. Hamilton presiding at the organ. The pall bearers were Messrs. Frank Hense, Peter Larson, Fred Jenkins, P. O. Erickson, E. H. Krelwitz and R. G. Sanford, of Palisade. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), February 5, 1916, P.1.]

Hollar, John Obituary

JOHN HOLLAR OF PALISADE IS DEAD

John Hollar, who has been living at the home of his daughter, Mrs. P. J. McKenna of Palisade last November, died May 31 of pneumonia. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. C. C. Sutton conducting th eservices. Interment was made in the Palisade cemetery.

John B. Hollar was born May 31, 1834, in the state of Indiana, and departed this life at Palisade, Minn., on his 84th birthday.

Deceased was married in 1856 to Harriet P. Shinn, who survives him, but is seriously ill at the home of their eldest daughter at Waterloo, Iowa, thus enjoying 62 years of wedded life. To this union was born four children, all except one surviving. They are: Mrs. Eliza Newton of Waterloo, Iowa; George E. Hollar of Sunnyside, Wash.; Grant Hollar, deceased; and Mrs. Hattie McKenna of Palisade, with home he had made his home the past year. There are also 18 grandchildren and 16 great-grand-children. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), June 8, 1918, P.8.]

HICKEY, Elizabeth Obituary

Mrs. Elizabeth Hickey, aged eighty-five, is dead at St. Paul. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), March 17, 1917, P.3.]

HINKEL, J. P. Obituary

J. P. Hinkel, aged seventy-nine, a resident of St. Paul since 1852, is dead, Mr. Hinkel and his family had lived on the same farm, on the outskirts of the city, for more than sixty years. Indians roamed the vicinity of the Hinkel farm in the early days. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), March 17, 1917, P.3.]

HUNT, Mrs. Frances Obituary

Mrs. Frances Hunt, aged sixty-seven years, who reached St. Paul with her parents in 1855, is dead. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), February 17, 1917, P.3.]

HUNT, Vim T. Obituary

Vim T. Hunt, a trainman employed by the Great Northern road, is dead at St. Joseph's hospital, St. Paul, from blood poisoning which resulted from severe injuries received twelve days ago in an accident at Barnesville, this state. The caboose in which Hunt was riding overturned and a hand and foot were cut off and he was crushed about the body. Hunt was to have been married in a few weeks. [The Aitkin Age, (Aitkin, MN), January 2, 1906, P.2.]

Jacobs, Mr. Obituary

Mrs. Eliza Jacobs returned Monday from Jamestown, N. D., after spending two weeks with her husband, who was sick in a hospital. Mr. Jacobs passed away Wednesday. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), July 23, 1921; P.5.]

Jacobson, Samuel Obituary

Samuel Jacobson, a homesteader, whose claim of 151 acres is located 1 1/2 miles east of Bain, in Hebron township, died at the Allen hotel here on Tuesday, September 3, at 4 o'clock a.m. He was born at Molde, near Alusund, Norway, on May 26, 1833. His father was a miller at that place, and about 1872 the mill property was sold, the son came to America with the proceeds, some $1800. One thousand dollars of this he lost through a bank failure in Chicago, and the remainder he invested in a farm in Sibley county, which was later taken from him by relatives. He then became a voluntary evangelist and followed intermittently the calling of a cobbler until too feeble to work. He leaves two sons, B. J. Jacobson of Bain, and another son of Alaska. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), Sept. 7, 1912, P.5.]

JONES, Preston R. Obituary

Preston R. Jones, sixty-seven years old, timber scaler for the Brooks Bros. Lumber company of St. Paul, was pinned under a great pile of lumber which had toppled over on him and was dead when taken out. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), March 17, 1917, P.3.]

KALMAN, Arnold Obituary

Arnold Kalman, seventy-two years old, prominent St. Paul business man, is dead. Associated with A. B. Stickney Mr. Kalman did much for the development of the Union Stock Yards in South St. Paul and was prominent in the upbuilding of South St. Paul as a packing center. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), May 26, 1917, P.6.]

KNAPTON, Richard Obituary

Richard Knapton, sixteen years of age, is dead at St. Paul from injuries received on a toboggan slide two weeks ago. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), February 17, 1917, P.3.]

Lemire, Abraham Obituary

Abraham Lemire, a civil war veteran and a resident of this locality for about 35 years, died suddenly Thursday evening at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Walter Constance. He had been a sufferer from dropsey from a long time, but was apparently in his usual health and a few minutes after eating his supper he passed away while sitting in his chair. He was 78 years old and a member of the Catholic church and the G. A.R. Post.

The body was taken to Brainerd and the funeral will be held there Monday and burial made by the side of his wife, who died a few years ago. The family lived in Brainerd at one time.

Surviving are twelve children, six sons and six daughters. They are Frank, Louis, Fred, George, Ed. and William Lemire, Mrs. Rose Munger, Mrs. Angus McMullin, Mrs. Martino of Dakota, Mrs. Brooks of Canada, Mrs. Hillman and Mrs. Constance. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), Dec. 31, 1921, P.1.]

Lemire, Benjamin Obituary

PIONEER RESIDENT HAS PASSED AWAY

Benjamin Lemire, First Settler at Hickory, Leaves Interesting Family, Including Two Priests.

It is not given to every man blessed with fullness of years to be blessed also with a family of sons and daughters a number of whom have attained prominence in the church and in the business world. Such a man was Benjamin Lemire, one of Aitkin county's pioneers, and first settler in that section of the county which later came to be known as Hickory.

One of the most impressive funerals held in Aitkin for many years was that of Benjamin Lemire of Hickory conduced at the St. James Catholic church Tuesday morning. Mass was said by a son of the deceased, Rev. Fr Eli Lemire of Cloquet, who was assisted by six other priests, Rev. E. J. Lemire, of Red Lake Falls, another son, and Father Wurm of Crookston, Father Turbiaux of Crosby, Father Philip of Bemidji, Father Limmer of Cloquet and Father Frederick of Aitkin. Five sons and a son-in-law of the deceased, John B. George B., R. F., Henry and Benjamin Lemire and Arthur Parent were the pall-bearers. Interment was made in the cemetery in the town of Farm Island.

Mr. Lemire, who was born in Canada, March 19, 1848, was one of the early pioneers in Aitkin county, having settled at Hickory about 35 years ago. Since that time he has done much toward building up Aitkin county. He was a good husband and father, a good farmer, a good neighbor and a good church member. He had been in failing health for the last two years, but was not seriously ill until the last two months, when valvular disease of the heart developed. He died at his home at Hickory February 15.

Mr. Lemire is survived by his wife and eleven children, John B. of March; George B. of Sentinel Butte, N.D.; R. F. Lemire of Federal Dam; Rev. Eli of Cloquet; Rev. E. J. Lemire of Red Lake Falls; Mrs. T. Sura of Federal dam; Mrs. Fred Abbel of Cottonwood, Idaho; Jerry Lemire of Sentinel Butte, N.D.; Mrs. Arthur Parent of Hickory and Henry and Benjamin Lemire of Hickory. All were present at the funeral except Jerry Lemire, who, however, was here a short time before his father's death. Abe Lemire, a brother of the deceased, and George, Fred and Louis Lemire, nephews, all of Brainerd, were present at the funeral. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), Feb. 23, P.4.]

VUVERNE, Mrs. Ed Obituary

Mrs. Ed Luverne, a resident of St. Paul, killed herself by shooting on a Great Northern passenger train while on her way to Grand Forks, N. D. The woman had been ill and brooded over domestic troubles, it is said. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), February 17, 1917, P.3.]

Megarry, Emma Jennie Obituary

Death of Miss Megarry
On Tuesday morning Sept. 19, 1912 a few minutes after the midnight hour Emma Jennie Megarry only daughter of Frank B. and Anna L. Megarry of Morrison Township, aged 19 years and 8 months passed from this earthly life to that which is immortal.

Her trust was in Jesus and her last request to her parents and brothers was to meet her in heaven.

Five years ago last March she was taken down with the measles, from which she never fully recovered, her weakness developing nothing mortal could hinder from doing its fatal work. Though suffering from ill health for so many years, only a few minutes before she passed away she said her life had been nothing but happiness.

She leaves five brothers, Willie, Frank, Charlie, Harry and David, who with her parents watched around her as she entered the spirit world.

Her life was a blessing and her memory is sweet. "The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away" blessed be the name of the Lord.

CARD OF THANKS
To the many friends who extended us their aid and sympathy during the illness and death of ur dear daughter our heartfelt gratitude is hereby recorded. F. B. and Anna L. Megarry. [The Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), Sept. 21, 1912, P.1.]

Nelson, Charles Obituary

Minneapolis, Aug. 21-A man supposed to be Charles Nelson of Merriam Park, St. Paul, was instantly killed between Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth avenues on Central avenue by an inbound Columbia Heights car. His horse was also killed and his rig smashed. [Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), Aug. 24, 1912, P.6.]

Robinson, Mary Obituary

Death of Mrs. Mary Robinson
On Friday morning of last week, Mrs. Mary Robinson answered the final summons at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Dennerly of Hill City. Death was due to paralysis.

The deceased was born in Lynn, Mass., in 1857. For the past year or two, she had made her home in Aitkin with her son, F. H. MacGregor and family.

The funeral was held last Sunday morning at Stacy, Minn.

Two sons, Sergeant James F. MacGregor, now stationed at Hicks, Texas, and Fergus H. MacGregor of Aitkin and two daughters, Mrs. A. H. Costain of Moorhead, and Mrs. Wm. Dennerly of Hill City, are left to mourn her loss. Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), June 8, 1918, P.4.]

Titus, George E. Obituary

George Ellsworth Titus was born March 28, 1864, in the state of Pennsylvania. At the age of twenty-one moved with his parents to western Kansas. Was married to Edith V. Lewis of Lincoln county, Kansas, Oct. 30th, 1894, moving to Minnesota shortly afterward. Four children were born to this union, two having died in infancy. In the spring of 1913 he settled on a homestead near Tamarack, where he resided until death, which occurred Saturday morning, April 27.

He contracted a severe cold while working in Duluth; after returning home, pneumonia developed. After an illness of five days his spirit took its flight. He was very patient in suffering, having assurance of his soul's salvation.

He is survived by his wife and two children, a brother and four sisters. The body was laid to rest in the cemetery near Tamarack, services being conducted by Rev. Johanson. The family fell very thankful for services rendered by the minister and choir and the kind friends and neighbors who assisted in their time of sorrow.[Aitkin Independent Age, (Aitkin, MN), May 4, 1918, P.4.]